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Following on from his hugely successful partnership with the Orchestra for BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013, German conductor Jun Märkl returns to Cardiff for an intimate concert in BBC Hoddinott Hall. Märkl will share one of his great loves with us, the music of Claude Debussy, with a performance of La Mer, imbued with rich and atmospheric scoring. This beautiful afternoon of music will also feature much loved Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams.

Tickets: £10-£28Paul Daniel conductor
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Some of the greatest young musicians of our time tackle the emotional breadth of Mahler’s heart-wrenching fifth symphony, while The Rules harnesses NYO’s electric energy to stunning effect. Who better to challenge the protocols of classical music in the concert hall?

For his second programme in the season, Sakari Oramo offers an exhilarating menu of Beethoven, Schumann and Colin Matthews. Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony was, and remains, a revolutionary statement of genius. The blazing ‘hunting’ horns in the symphony’s trio, perfectly echoe Schumann’s glorious Konzertstück for four horns, showcasing soloists from the BBC SO, and the heroic, romantic and soulful qualities of the instrument. Traces Remain, a new commission from Colin Matthews, takes its name and inspiration from a book of essays by Charles Nicholl: ‘the sudden presence, the glimpse behind the curtain, the episode measured in minutes and preserved across the centuries’.

Part of the CBSO Centre Stage season, a series of 50-minute informal and friendly concerts finding the performers ‘at home’ in the CBSO Centre.

Emotion recollected in tranquility: the young Brahms was tormented by an impossible love. Years later, he re-crafted his Op.8 into a trio which distills youthful ardour into music of epic power and deep poetry. Today, it’s the personal choice of one of the world’s greatest living pianists – the incomparable Lars Vogt, who will be performing in close quarters at CBSO Centre.

This will be the BBC SSO’s first major musical event of 2014, and a fascinating overview of a life in music, conducted by the composer himself.

For the first time in over a decade, Scotland’s foremost composer James MacMillan takes to the podium in his native country for a public concert. The programme, to be recorded for of BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, features two World Premieres from opposite ends of MacMillan’s career: his latest work The Keening and his early Symphonic Study, written as a graduation piece.

There’s also the Scottish Premiere of A Deep but Dazzling Darkness, a stunningly dramatic reflection on the ability of music to bring comfort, and in this performance a tremendous showcase for the skills of BBC SSO leader Laura Samuel. For Sonny, a gentle elegy in memory of a young child, is premiered in a new arrangement, and Exsultet, his 1998 fanfare for brass quintet (in the revised version for symphonic brass), conjures up a typically MacMillan-like journey from darkness into light.

"The memory of the Isis-Osiris couple came back to me. It contains the novel in nucleo." In his diary, Robert Musil noted this quick comparison between his poem from 1923 and the large work in progress, l’Homme sans qualités. Brother and sister, figures of twinship, a superhumain and violent effort to go beyond duality?
Isis & Osiris, the program of creation by Jacques Lenot divided between a symphony of wind instruments, the earth, and electronics, the sky. Musicians perform under a virtual dome (ambisonics) in IRCAM's Espace de projection where four virtual orchestras are "suspended", meticulously arranged in the room's space.
From the sky, a sonorous dust haze.

Set ﬁre to a dark January evening and join us in a dramatic concert retelling the tale of Boudica through songs, instrumental music, poems and images…the woman who changed history in the UK and still captures our imaginations.

Soprano Corrina Dolso with Equinox instrumental ensemble, and featured composer Julia Usher bring this tale to the Headgate theatre, with images by Hilary Lazell, and new poem by Joan Taylor.

Come and sing in the performance as part of the Equinox 'pop-up' choir. receive the PDF score in advance by emailing corrina.dolso@btopenworld.com. Free come-and-sing workshop 6-7:30pm on the evening of the concert.

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, welcomes the New Year with three premieres by Ken Ueno, Elena Ruehr and David Rakowski. BMOP has performed each composer’s music thrice before on the Jordan Hall stage and has recorded multiple albums featuring their work.

The composer Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom was killed in a tragic accident in July 2013. The Cité de la musique and IRCAM dedicate this concert to his memory and continue to mourn his loss. The premiere that Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom was preparing with the Quartuor Béla and IRCAM has been cancelled as the work is unfinished. Therefore, the concert program has been modified.